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I did it by the way. Get your un-official bear cavalry medalions here >> link

Alright, as promised! (ok, so according to my clock its 5 min late, but *SHUSH* I mad made an error and thought the 27th was friday, but then "rushed" home from my thanksgiving feast when I found out I was wrong ) Here it is, BEAR CAVALRY! And, MORE BEAR CAVALRY <img src="http://landiscasner.com/images/stuff/bearknight.png" alt="MORE BEAR CAVALRY" width="100" hei

I think there isn't anything wrong with turtling. And making the shards/nodes stationary won't prevent turtling. It might encourage compition over resources encouraging conflict, but turtles can deal with that just as they can in every other game where there are stationary resources on the map. It doesn't matter if it is gold, minerals, crystal, or magic... turtles find a few good sources of the stuff and then setup camp. Turtles won't come out

Wouldn't it be simple enough to say a battle should be x rounds long, after that the troops would collapse from fatigue. So the armies retreat back to their respective tiles, however the battle is still active, and after next end-turn they are right back where they were with minor health and mana repair (since they would have rested up for the night). players have the chance of bringing in reinforcements as need be. It would be realistic from a seige point

In master of magic there were some very strange tie situations. In master of magic units could fight each other, both give and take damage in such a way that BOTH units died (the attacker and defender). The ending result seemed to often be a bit random. Usually it was defeat, but occationally it would be a victory. Sometimes, the only unit remaining would be a summon creature that disappeared after the battle which would give victory but no reward or s

non-combat heroes? Well, it would be interesting to have a court or something that you could put people in, or have a grand viser that leved up. It seems like pretty big feature creep, but I love talking about these kinds of ideas. It sounds like the same direction MoM's fame system, except perhaps a little better. The more fame-infamy you have the more powerful your council members can become, thus indirectly better rewards. A famous channeler will

Yeah, master of magic always asked what you wanted to name any new towns and many games have had it sense. Missing that feature would be mind blowing, and probebly added in a patch if somehow overlooked. You almost MUST be able to name nows if you are in charge of managing many self-placed cities.

Well, its a world of fantasy it can be anything. Heck, I think an army of riders on top of creepy mutant guys could work. Other ideas for Mounts: Skeleton-beast/horse (a must) Giant spiders Flying sharks elephants (almost a must) dinosaurs Giant snakes (really any giant animal) elemental steeds (like firy horses or strange earthy quadraped) - not nessicarily a horse, but a multi-legged elemental

[quote who="Spartan" reply="19" id="1953335"] QFT [/quote] ok, bare with me here. call me a forum newbie or something if you want, but I have never seen nor heard of an acronym that includes a Q... I can think of a few for FT *hammer* but those are really mean. What is QFT?

I forsee that many other games will start moving in the same direction as this game, in that they will start focusing on creating visual styles other than realism. Cell-shaded is fine and all, but I see more games *in the future* trying to achieve their own style and appearance. As far as what was said about zooming to a high-end first person shooter level? I imagine that was vetoed for a more stylized approch that seems like would require less re

[quote who="pigeonpigeon" reply="11" id="1951605"] For example: I want Bear Cavalry but I only have those silly horse creatures in my territory, so I decide to trade with my neighbor who has lots of bears. There are sooooo many things I could trade. I could offer horses, or gold, or iron, or to share my irrigation technology, or my iron smelting technology, or share some of my magic knowledge. I could even offer to declare war against his sworn enemy. How in the world would I be able to

I think creating your own spells is going too far as well. However, I completly believe that a "tree" should exist that includes cross-element spells. I mentioned some ideas for mixed spells in another thread, though I don't remember where exactly.

Quoting Luckmann, reply 7 Edit: Also, no bears. But there's caves. Bears lives in caves, right? I don't think that quite cuts it. Thats like saying that there are skies and thats where skysharks live. But I guess the thought is what counts. *Bear Calvery Emblem - it is coming 11/27 if I c

Awesome! we get more pictures. They look really good. I'm even more excited. (I want to know about the stain glass talk-to-the-hand one) My only complaint is there are not already medallions of bear cavalry or sky sharks.

Now, when I'm out publishing games of my own, perhaps I'll feel differently. But right now the way I view it is that if I could make an awesome game and let everybody in the world play it for free, I would. However I need to eat and I need to pay for others that help me make the game to eat. So, I trust that if I make a really good game I will be able to satisfy the budget requirements of the game and get some saved up for the next title. I real

Its not so much an idea, but rather just a comment. I know some of my more hardcore Civ 4 fan friends hate the espianoge in that game because once the expansion pack added it, you could no longer view the world without putting an annoyingly hefty amount of resources into covert ops. While adding an interesting element to the game, the inability to turn it off also made it very frustrating.Its like if you are not counterspying, then you are pretty much screwed. While th

I think that mithrel armor and adamantine armor should of course be better than regular iron or steel. I also think that things like adamantine should also provide a certain amount of magic resistance as well, just because the magic in the metal is so potent. [quote who="Tamren" reply="15" id="1952080"] It would certainly add a lot of fun tactics we could use, but it would also exponentially increase the amount of work that has to be done on art assets and th

I personally wouldn't mind classes per-se, provided there are enough that I feel that its very customizable. I would want it to only really reflecct the order in which they gain abilies or something. Seperate of race and stuff.

[quote who="pigeonpigeon" reply="6" id="1951815"] I've never played MoM, so I don't know how binding your wizard to shards worked there, so sorry if this is how it worked in MoM. Finding and defeating the garrison of a shard shouldn't automatically give you control over it. You should have to cast a spell with your channeler, which you should be able to do from a distance. Once the spell is successfully cast, the channeler should slowly gain access to the shard; and the farther the

I figured it would be similar to the nodes of MoM. You would find them, but their magic power draws the strongest of beasts to guard it. So you have the first trouble of just capturing it. I liked in MoM how you had to bind your wizard to them with a magic spirit, unlike AoW which you just kinda claimed. I think that having them visable from the begining vs. having to explore to find them should be an easy option to have for the game. I mean it coul

cut down on piracy? us? what are you talkin' about. Its just a bold move to have no DRM sure, if thats to what you are referring. There is no evidance there is higher piracy with stardock games than any other popular titles. You are right, piracy isn't going to go away on its own. Its not going to go away if you fight it. you can't stop piracy. Nothing, not even the most frustrating DRM

[quote who="Dale_" reply="11" id="1943729"]Best possible solution is the ability to define our own meshes (eg: NIFs) and thus our own bodies and animations. Pretty please??????? [/quote] yeah, its called moding. And stardock seems to be very supportive of the modding community. That sounds like pretty easy plug-in mod via source forge (or whatever the elemental mod tools will be called).

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="14" id="1947189"] quoting post The media blitz seems full on with interviews everywhere , but I'm curious, why announce the game 1.5 years before release? I seem to recall hearing something about a Starcraft 2...and a Diablo 3 but I can't seem to find them at the store. [/quote] I remember hearing about warcraft Adventures: lord of the clans and starcraft: Ghost. &nb

I really liked the missions in Sins of a Solar empire. That being said, I think that if an AI player doesn't particularly like or dislike you, and you request for alliance or something. They should sometimes actually ask for something, like "go declare war on my enemy bob. I want to see you battle him before I trust you. Enemy of my enemy is my friend after all" and then actually fallow through later if you declare war. AT the same time, I

I'm in the "it should be turn-based" department. Though you should be able to chat with people outside the battle screen. O.o I actually wouldn't mind just the MoM system with a few mechanical and graphical upgrades. (just to add my 2 cents) In fact, I desire it! and would probebly be upset if it strayed too far from the classic MoM (or HoMM, because it is very similar) system